> An idea has occurred to me for a possible variation or refinement of
> Glossotechnia.
> In addition to the main deck and the translation challenge deck, I
> might add a deck
> containing the 60-odd words of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Each turn
> a player would coin one word on their own initiative, using charades,
> drawings, etc
> to define it, and then would draw the top card from the NSM deck and coin a
> word
> for that concept as well.
>
> I'm not sure if I would want to include the entire NSM vocabulary, or
> just a subset
> of those words that are harder than average to define with charades
> and pictures.
> Or I might add those cards to the main deck; when you get one of those cards
> in your hand, you can play it to coin a word for that concept without having
> to
> go through charades etc.
>
> With a separate NSM deck from which a word is drawn every turn, the
> vocabulary of
> the language would grow about twice as fast, and players might sooner be able
> to start using words of the game-language to define their new words.
>
> --
> Jim Henry
>
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry
>